Post your favorite tools for creative communication here.Download or print this list and use it to keep track of the passwords you create for each site
- Text-to-speech: type your text in the box, select from m/f native speaker voices in many languages (including LCTLs), adjust speech rate and voice shaping, then download your file
- Take any image, add a mouth to it, record something for it to say, and watch it become a moving conversationalist!
- Free, multimedia poster-maker. Set up student accounts for educational use.
**All About Me Project (Spanish) Note that students can include their own voices!
Go Animate - Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
- Create your own sound files, enhance your voice with effects, turn your voice into an instrument, save, and share
Creative Writing
- Create free photobooks from copyright-safe Flickr images and a template
- Create badges, billboards, CD covers, collages, cubes, jigsaw puzzles, magazine covers, mosaics, movie posters, trading cards, and more
- Students can create their own Peewee comics by mixing and matching backgrounds, characters, props, adding text, and printing their creations - chericem1
- Create a hamburger diagram
- Create e-books that can be read by any e-reader
- Create your own magazines
- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing)
- Allows students or teachers to use comics and different characters with different emotional body language...You can create stories and apply text and thought bubbles. It goes up to 4 frames, but to do more than one, you can simply create 2 individual sets. It allows you to print and email them after!! But be sure you do! The site does not store them once you've closed the browser!
- Create newsletters with photos from templates and host up to 10 online for free at any given time
- Comic generator site lets you select from a number of different characters, change their emotions, overlap elements, rescale things, etc.
- Create and share photo scrapbooks online (you can also print them)
- Create motivational posters by adding your own photos and text
- Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall" - Online journaling that allows you to attach photos
- Comic strip creation site that will take Chinese characters (and translate them) - courtesy of Aaron Bray - Very intuitive interface for creating booklets and brochures (similar to Issuu)
- Generate fake text messages
- Type in text, it generates a tag cloud you can print on t-shirts
- Electronic template for creating stories--allows linking to social media
Storybird
- Students can select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate their own, original stories. Diacritical marks must be cut and pasted in (via Word, for example)
- A phenomenal site with stock characters that will appeal to students and allows them to create truly original work - chericem1
- Put your own text on a Post-it note image
- Make tag (word) clouds in different shapes - Upload your text (or the URL of your blog) to make tag clouds in all sorts of very detailed shapes
- Search for images in the TL, then "annotate" them with audio, links, text, or videos
- A really nice site that lets you drag and drop characters, props, and even speed lines, etc. into comic frames. You can position things in front of or behind other things using the buttons at the bottom. Very intuitive and kid friendly. Be sure to click on all the buttons (Suggested by vidgan1)
- Comic creation software
- Create fake Tweets using this generator
- Create flippable magazines or reports for free (from uploaded PDFs) - Free, online website creation
Deutsch 21 - Create curriculum projects across schools
Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
- Choose a 2- or 3-circle Venn diagram, then change the labels, add notes, save, and share
- Lets you poll large groups of people so you can schedule meetings and events - Create infographics from templates or from scratch, then share them
- Create interactive infographics (with audio, charts, graphs, images, text, and video) from templates, then share them
- Use existing data or upload your own to create infographics from templates
- Create your own polls that students answer via text (extremely basic)
- Quickly post a question and watch as the votes change while students text their answers to the poll. You can also download your poll as a PowerPoint slide to include in a presentation
- Make a "to do" list, it helps you prioritize your tasks through a series of forced choices
- Allows threaded brainstorming
Collaboration
(See also PLN Tools below)
- Create your own booklists, reading groups, challenges, and reports (similar to Goodreads)
- Free, online course management system that allows teachers to create classes, track student information, etc. - Free, online learning management platform that allows teachers to engage students in discussions, polls, and projects. Also has reporting features.
- Collaborative whiteboard
- Collaborative social community (a la Facebook) for students and teachers in
educational settings
- Free, online, collaborative suite of office tools (forms, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing)
- An online community similar to Twitter, but designed for use in education
- Create collaborative timelines with text, photos, and videos. You can also choose a type of album, answer questions, and it will generate it for you
- Collaboratively "graffiti" by posting "stickies" on this online "wall"
- Hold videoconferences with colleagues from around the world for free
- Allows threaded brainstorming
- Create a customizable search page using icons
- Photo stories that allow audio voiceovers and audio comments
Deutsch 21 - Create curriculum projects across schools
Digitale-schule - Create separate pages for small group work to guide students in dividing up project responsibilities, gathering necessary information, and working through the writing process
We Are the World - Develop interdisciplinary curriculum across grade levels
Wikiaula - Automatically notify students and parents any time a page is updated using the RSS feature of the page.
Wikitaller - Post copies of presentations or video clips showed during class
PLN Tools
- An online community for academics similar to Facebook
- Online social bookmarking (I prefer to bookmark in Diigo and retrieve through Delicious)
- An online community that allows you to engage in discussions; annotate, highlight, and archive webpages; and save and share bookmarks with like-minded colleagues
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- An online community that allows you to chat with colleagues, create events, hold discussions, post links/photos/resources/videos, and share information with different groups of people
- A professional listserv with a circulation of over 6,000 K-12 teachers, researchers, scholars, and university professors from around the world involved in world language education
- A series of "unconferences" for people interested in intersections between the humanities and technology
- Tool you can use to manage Facebook and Twitter feeds
- A great tool for professional networking and keeping up with the latest developments in your chosen fieldin 140 characters or less! ( - Use this search tool to find people to follow on Twitter)
Table of Contents
Creative Communication
Adolescents Americans vs. Adolescents Francais - Example in French comparing teenage life in the U.S. and France
Adopt-a-Pet for Spanish 101 - Example in Spanish
Chinese Oral - Example of an oral exam in Chinese
Chinese Picture Description - Example in Chinese of a student describing a photo from a play
Francais 95's fotobabble - Example in beginning French about a visit to an art museum
Japanese City/Town/Village - Description of a Japanese community
Japanese City Park - Description of a Japanese park
Meine familie - Example in beginning German describing family
Monkey King - Example in fluent Chinese of storytelling
Qual é o seu nome? - Example in Portuguese of two people introducing themselves
**All About Me Project (Spanish) Note that students can include their own voices!
Go Animate - Create animated videos from stock characters, images, music, and effects, or upload your own and lay them in tracks. Students have to type text into Word and then copy and paste it in order to get diacritical marks.
Creative Writing
My Brochure Maker - Brochures
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
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PLN Tools
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